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MS Vista

After getting Vista with a new laptop this year, it is satisfactory, if underwhelming in its improvements. However, one ongoing issue is how it handles certain websites. When I pull up certain sites, usually ones that take a long time to load, it will lock up. I cannot put my finger on any particular commonality among the sites, like certain plug-ins. Anyone have any ideas?

Re: MS Vista

Originally Posted by balken

After getting Vista with a new laptop this year, it is satisfactory, if underwhelming in its improvements. However, one ongoing issue is how it handles certain websites. When I pull up certain sites, usually ones that take a long time to load, it will lock up. I cannot put my finger on any particular commonality among the sites, like certain plug-ins. Anyone have any ideas?

Smug, supercilious responses from Apple users not required.

For mine, it's not necessarily ones that take a long time to load always. It just happens.

I find it OK, but underwhelming is a good term. Seems like XP wasn't broken enough for this fix.

Re: MS Vista

Had vista for about a month on my new vista only desktop. Hacked it up a bunch and reinstalled XP, now the world is good again. There is a push for Vista here at the office, but I am resisting big time, there is just no compelling reason to go to vista, M$ screwed up big time with this one.

Re: MS Vista

I have two problems with Vista. Both, I think relate to it's ability to "learn". First, I had a "dirty" download of a flight sim. And, there is no human way to completely get rid of the flight sim fault. Vista "remembers" the flaw every flippin' time, no matter what I do. It will just not allow me to fully uninstall the sim.

The second fault is that it refuses to go online. I have sat online with a tech for 2+ hours, twice, and they've both told me I was stuck.

So now I have a real high speed, graphically advanced word processor and Mahjong player.

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